@vhsdad congrats! Where do you reside? Curious if Midwest will receive them today?
@CADREAMIN I get that I should probably only ask this tomorrow if I do indeed get a box, but for those dates that you posted for interviews, what part of the day does the program start on the first day? I can’t help trying to figure out which dates would work for me even though it’s not likely for me to get that box.
@raffie - portal will update Thursday night - Friday morning (12:30am) and you will get email if you do not get scholarship. No physical mail.
DAY 1
5:30 p.m.
Student/host match-up
6:00 p.m.
Hosts and visitors eat dinner in dining hall
7:00 p.m.
Evening activity
Remember that visiting students spend night in the hosts’ residence halls
DAY 2
8:00 a.m.
Hosts and visitors eat breakfast in dining hall
9:00 a.m.
Hosts and visiting students part; visiting students go to scholarship interview
Just got home from school- no package unfortunately. I live in OC but in Irvine area where @CADREAMIN suggested there could be a delay. Mail to my house comes comparatively very early to the rest of OC so maybe I still have a chance? Regardless- massive congrats to everyone who has received or will receive a package- you deserve it!
@Laketahoe79 What would be an “overqualified” applicant. Like what test scores/gpa?
So now that this is really happening, what the heck is happening?
They are making it rain in LA area today. Not everyone in LA will get it today, so don’t be discouraged yet, but cautiously hopeful until tomorrow in that area. San Diego - don’t count on it till tomorrow. Some may trickle today but not many. Norcal none today, tomorrow it will rain packages in Norcal.
Actually, the rest of the country is really blanketed tomorrow - up and down east coast and major metro areas in Midwest and Florida. It is amazing how many get them tomorrow (Thursday). Virtually everyone…then there is the third day to fill the holes from the second day, but by third day portal will have updated so you know to expect it or not on Friday.
Does anyone know what day Austin, Texas will receive the packages? Not that I’m expecting anything…
@CADREAMIN how many confirmed packages have arrived and where?
Tomorrow for Austin
Why don’t they release the results on the portal?
Because they love the old school surprise and giving kids these fantastic acceptance packages. What better way to find out you are in the running for 100 or 200K? I have a love hate thing with this process having gone through it many many times.
But I have had the mailbox moment and I tell you, they rank near the top in memory land. If USC is the proverbial “dream school” for your kid and you share in the moment they realize they are in by seeing that big white box, it is something indescribable. Finding out online just isn’t the same.
Portal updates will come too. Same with regular admission in March, suspense (and agony) city.
@CADREAMIN thanks!
Wait so portal updates Thursday/Friday? Because we are in the “3 day” zone (rural Midwest), so I am not even looking for anything until Friday. So nervous for my son.
Got a presidential nom today!! I’m from the OC area as well
Friday 10pm
@zeynepp They do and will… by Friday. USC is old school and wants the mail box moments.
@vhsdad Do you happen to be signed up for USPS Informed Delivery?
I’m a state over in Southern Nevada and haven’t gotten anything
There is no such thing as not giving to an overqualified kid. My kid could have been seen as “ overqualified” and got it last year. When she interviewed she was with one girl who was already accepted to Harvard. And another Stanford. They want to woo them away.